Craig interviewed re: End of Foster's

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Originally Posted by MaxJ1800

Wait a minute, I just thought of something involving Jackie Khone's Origin. Craig McCracken himself said that people lose the ability to make imaginary friends by the time they reach adulthood. By Craig's own rules, Jackie Khone's origin is physically impossible.

I believe the creation process is largely biological in nature, not a purely mental exercise. As I recall, Lauren has said that the cutoff point is adolescence, so it is logical to assume that the same adolescent hormones that switch on one's ability to reproduce in the traditional manner also switch off the brain's ability to create Imaginary Friends. It is possible that a mutation might arise wherein the cells in the part of the brain responsible for creating Imaginary Friends lack the proper receptors for these hormones, and as such the ability wouldn't be switched off and would be retained into adulthood. There is certainly precedence for things like this, the most notable being the ability to digest milk; normally this ability is lost as one ages but a beneficial mutation allows many people to continue to drink milk all their lives. In the case of Billy Dee Williams, he simply has a mutation of some sort that allows adults to create Imaginary Friends.